Welcome to the brand new 2013 Design Guide

Perhaps the most essential resource for people designing a new home or renovation. Design Guide is written by architects for YOU. It provides insights into the processes architects work through in designing houses and it's written for clients, so it's easy to understand stories add real value and help you work with your architect to get a better home for your need and wants.

• Ideas, Insights and Inspiration for people working with architects and designers
• How to get the best out of your Designer
• What they need to know from you

CURRENT EDITION -   " SOLD OUT"  NEXT EDITION -  2014 available from November online & in store

You will be able to order your 2014 copy from October 2013, in stores November 2013 - only $12.50 incl GST and postage.

 "This will be a real 'game-changer'" - Marshall Cook*

*winner of the prestigious NZ Institute of Architects Gold Medal in 2010, NZIA Board Member and Design Guide contributor

Our next edition covers even more ground than the 2012 issue. Writers include David Shephard, Megan Edwards, Marc Lithgow, and Cymon Allfrey and we cover off:

• Design Typology - the basics of building shape
• Designing for a Cold Climate
• Home Automation
• Space & Light
• And, of course, leading designers around kitchens, bathrooms, interiors
• We also have a feature story on new approaches to Green Building, including case studies of the Zero Energy House and the Passive House both currently under construction

The Design Guide is a new guidebook for people that aims to make working with architects and designers a dream. 

If You're Building or Renovating, this is the ESSENTIAL reference guide for your project.

What sets this wonderful new magazine apart are the contributors - some of the leading architects and designers in the country. In other words, our new Design Guide annual is written by architects and designers for their clients.

It is squarely aimed at homeowners who are in the design phase of their building project as a kind of 'house design 101'. 

Main sections cover Building, Interior and Landscape Design, and there are complete sections devoted to New Technologies, Kitchen and Bathroom Design.

The new Design Guide will be distributed around the country through selected retail, Paper Plus supermarkets, and at Home Ideas Centres in Auckland, Wellington & Christchurch, or you can pre-order yours here right now.

If you're looking to start designing - you need this! 

                          

               

 

Straight Up Productions - we're the people that bring you the Building Guide...the essential guide for people who are building or renovating: available online, through councils, Home Ideas Centres, builders and designers and in selected Pak 'n Save and New World supermarkets in the North Island from February..

 

 

Design Guide 2012